Pith Number

pith:FQLV235R

pith:2026:FQLV235RQNYKTD2G3I6QCLDDC6

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A Sharper Picture of Generalization in Transformers

Paul Lintilhac, Sair Shaikh

arxiv:2605.20988 v1 · 2026-05-20 · cs.LG · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FQLV235RQNYKTD2G3I6QCLDDC6}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-21T01:05:31.235933Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2c175d6fb18370a98f46da3d012c63179dca4cd30a0c8f02106e1a782bd1d55d

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.20988 · arxiv_version: 2605.20988v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.20988 · pith_short_12: FQLV235RQNYK · pith_short_16: FQLV235RQNYKTD2G · pith_short_8: FQLV235R

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/FQLV235RQNYKTD2G3I6QCLDDC6 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 2c175d6fb18370a98f46da3d012c63179dca4cd30a0c8f02106e1a782bd1d55d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb92a056490ea9453c2cf6560745f699c4ce2b0ce891347a59b67ca7ad0466cb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.LG",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T10:23:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6866da49403a13ea9bd3056d2516326cd1c3fbf7aa0d5a5be49b72855eab6730"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.20988",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}